Steven Chu

Product Designer based in Brooklyn, NY

Email
work@stevenchustudio.com

Phone
646-450-2809

Experience

Bose

Product Design Lead · Site Experience & Design Systems (IC, Level 4 - Staff Scope), 2024 - Present

Lead design systems and site infrastructure for Bose.com—spanning responsive architecture, accessibility, and cross-functional tooling, while influencing key PLP and product tile UX decisions.

Motif Photos

Design Lead (Brand, Web, Marketing), 2018-2023

Led the digital transformation for Motif, a global photo-printing service by R.R. Donnelley (Fortune 500)—live in 32 countries on iOS and Mac. Brought component-based architecture to marketing and engineeringomponent-based architecture to marketing and engineering&emdash;operationalizing a shared model for scalable, reusable UI, and improving UX consistency, responsiveness, and site performance..

Uniqlo

UX Engineer, 2017 - 2018

Developed a coding automation tool through contextual research and service design to help the 6 person team eliminate user error when developing emails, meet production goals, and increase email personalization.

Marie Forleo

UX Consultant, 2015

Marie Forleo is a multimillion-dollar online education platform for entrepreneurship endorsed by Oprah & Richard Branson with students in 148 countries and 609+ job industries - I led strategy, information architecture, and wireframing to transform MarieForleo.com from a basic Wordpress blog into a fully-developed learning resource hub which has helped 55,000+ students pursue entrepreneurship. The site format quickly became a template replicated by industry competitors.

Steven Chu Studio

UX & Shopify E-commerce Consultant, Sept 2010 - Dec 2017

Launched and managed Shopify stores for e-commerce brands including: Marissa Webb, former Global Creative Director of Banana Republic and J. Crew; a gold and diamonds jeweler; and consulted for Mary Kate & Ashley Olsen, MONSE, S. Rothschild, and Steven Alan.

Education

B.S. in Business Administration & Psychology

Haas School of Business
University of California, Berkeley

Skills

Methods & Skills

Design Tools

Figma
FigJam
Zeplin
Zeroheight
Notion

Dev Tools

GitHub
Jira
Confluence

Dev Tools

HTML5
CSS3
JavaScript
Liquid

Content Platforms

Shopify
Contentful
Contentstack

Strategy & Leadership UX strategy

UX strategy
Design systems
Systems thinking
DesignOps
User research & validation
Cross-functional collaboration

Experience Architecture

End-to-end design
Interaction design
User flows
Information architecture
Responsive design
Accessibility (WCAG)

Execution

Rapid prototyping
Front-end development
Scalable UI architecture
Design documentation
Figma variables
Design tokens